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Re: 2006 CWS
HeyBatter, This is why it is so critical to win your conferences' automatic bid. We see this every year in basketball, many teams deserving of a bid don't get one because there are only so many at large bids. Every time a team under .500 runs the table in a major conference tournament it reduces the number of those avialable at large bids. This is because the dominant team in the conference may take an at large bid when they were expected to take the automatic one. Every year in baseball,...
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Re: Anyone going to the Louisiana Super NIT?
Who won the 12U Super NIT in Dallas. With the Banditos all ready having a bid, who got the other two bids? Thanks
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Re: Still want to play professional baseball???????
After reading all the posts, I think most of us would still give up our current day jobs to play. The bus would stink, but i always remind my sister who traveled all over the country for 12 years that she has covered more places than I will in my lifetime. She played amateur golf the pay wasn't too good either :P I do not know if many of you saw the interview of Kurt Warner talking about his salary which was the minimum during his superbowl bid. I think it was 300-400k then. A reporter...
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Re: Importance of Age vs Grade in HS
Kid like this will likely accept a relatively low draft bid to avoid school.
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Re: Spending money wisely
I think what he meant was that the cardinals are in an easier division but only two out from each other. However you are right, not the same division and not the same league. You kind of have to wonder if things would have been different in the division if Albert was in STL. You do have to give them credit, without carpenter, waino returning from TJS, puma out most of season, furcal out, Beltran having a bad season, that they actually got a wild card bid. Not bad considering a rookie...
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Re: 2007 17U Travel Team Looking for Players
We did play in 2005 and 2006. We play mainly tournaments and showcases. Sometimes we will schedule a double header here and there against local teams. We did win a bid to the CABA World Series in Euclid, OH for the summer of 2007 so we will be attending that. As for the competetition we played it was fairly good. We had above a .500 season this summer. Were looking to expand our team and that is why we are now having the open tryout. As for next summer we plan on attending many showcases to...
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Re: Village idiot...but he made it to the Bigs
Disney is reported to be looking into doing a movie about Faust. The book is available on Amazon and is a SABR nominee for best baseball book. http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Faust-Saved-McGraw-Giants/dp/0967522102 Isn't it interesting that in 1911 a talentless nutcase could arrange a personal tryout with John McGraw. Then, as now, having supreme self-confidence and being 6'2" helped. More on Faust: http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=4309&bid=217
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Re: Simeon High School Varsity Tournament
As I understand it this tournament has been run by Simeon for several years and held over the Columbus Day weekend. This year there are 17 teams participating and 8 of the teams will advance to the playoffs tomorrow. This tournament allows the high school coaches to get an early look at their team to evaluate players and make some player decisions for the upcoming spring season. Accordingly all of the players are getting some time in and the more talented Sophomores who are being considered...
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Re: The SCAC Conference
Krak, The SCAC runs baseball differently than other sports. They separate into two conferences with the West being traditionally stronger and dominant. I am not sure how it will be configured with Birmingham Southern and Colorado College entering. What I would guess is that Austin College, Southwestern, Trinity, Hendrix, Millsaps and Colorado College with be in the West and DePauw, Ogelthorpe, Rhodes, Birmingham Southern, Centre and Sewanee will be in the East. Every school has fine/top...
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Re: Roger Clemens
RYNO I think a lot of people just nod and say, "oh yeah well every business has pitfalls. Athletes use PED, cement contractors bid the job with top quality prices and then install mid-quality... oh yeah, that's just the way it is... I'm with you, it drives me crazy. Here's Clemens, as gifted guy that ever walked the earth... had a great career but couldn't let it go at that, had to go chemical... what an imposter!!!
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Re: TCU to join Big East
Off the cuff remarks... This seems rather surprising based on the geographic locations of the schools which may hurt some non-revenue sports since expenses will now increase to participate in conference. The good.... Obviously, TCU was after one thing. The automatic BCS bid in football. I am guessing the Big East wanted to increase its resume regarding football as well. The not so sure... What about TCU basketball? Anybody see them competing in the Big East? What about baseball and other...
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Re: TCU to join Big East
BC and Miami in the ACC is a long long travel path. Many would of thunk TCU would be better off in the Big 12 and replace Colorado/Nebraska and have another team added to the Big 12. It will be interesting to see TCU in the Big East in baseball as well as football. Hopefully change is good for the school and the League.
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Re: Rangers Make Substantial Offer to Lee
The Rangers must leave money to lock up Hamilton. I'm hearing that Michael Young might be on the block in order to make a bid for Beltre. As much as I like Young as a leader and consistant hitter, I would do that if possible. Young is a statue at third base.
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Re: Rangers Make Substantial Offer to Lee
Interesting development. If the Yankees have the "winning bid", there would be no discussion about uping the offer. Before the tone from the Yankees was they would without a doubt sign Lee. Now the Yankees are saying they don't need to sign him? I thought the Yankees could spend unlimited amounts to sign anyone they wanted? Here they are saying no more. Sounds like they are trying to make a soft landing for what they know will be a loss.... http://sports.espn.go.com/new-...ews/story?id=5914684
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Re: TCU pretty good in 2010
Lots of interesting perspectives here. We can argue till doomsday whether or not TCU would have been able to weather an SEC shedule etc etc but for 2010 we will never know. Obviously the college teams change from year to year so even after joining the Big East it will not answer the questions of 2010. However overall I disagree that TCU will be playing tougher teams when they join the Big East. Most of the current Big East teams are former non AQ's that were added to keep the conference...
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Re: Regionals
Not long ago Didn't Granby do well a couple of years back.The Eastern District has had very good players in the past and some have gone on to do well at D-1 levels and the pros.Mostly inner-city schools they have seldom had rosters that affords a lot of depth.They were very competitive years back,before Chesapeake and Va.Beach had in-door plumbing.The shift in population growth has put a strain on these schools.I am sorry you have chosen to disguise and ask your question out of idle...
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Re: who wins the beach?
datababy...coulda, woulda, shoulda. OL finished first with a 15-1 record and EARNED their bid to regionals. Sometimes the truth is hard to swallow.
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Re: Central Region Qualifier Question
Here is an idea. The regular season winner gets the automatic bid. Why not make them exempt from the tournament and have teams 2, 3, 4, and 5 play the tournament, ie 2 plays 5 and 3 plays 4. Makes more sense to me.
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Re: Dominion District Tournament
Is the Dominion District tournament the only one where the second regional bid is on the line? In central Matoaca and Dinwiddie are in In colonial DSF and Godwin are in Not sure about Capital- Think i heard LD lost so maybe that one is up in the air? Alot of baseball left to be played in teh Dominion it seems. I assume Cosby has all its pitching to work with?
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Re: My son just received an Area Codes Tryout Invite -
TRhit I was referring to in comparison to spending time in your child's youth athletics. If you ever get to the LA area, my cousin has a large 50 year collection you can bid on. I'm sure he would sell them to you gladly. Mr. Williams I did know that and he is quite a colorful guy, I enjoy his company quite a bit. By the way Mr. Williams, my son was invited to go to China when he was 10 from CSUN camp. Unfortunately at the time We didn't have the money, then it was changes to australia due to...
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Re: Brooke Point 5, Riverbend 3
More on the game at Virginia Preps - Brooke Point and Riverbend battle for regional bid, full report by Leonard Pumphrey. Excerpt follows:
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Re: NTIS Tryout Fees Are A RipOff
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) does not recieve continuous funding for itself and umbrella organizations, but it does recieve funding in years when the games are held here (or if a bid is competitive). USA Baseball collects membership fees according to its financial statement and further noted that it made $81,000 on the Tournament of Stars in 2007. Further, if the various named organizations are paying for the participants in the Tournament of Stars, USA Baseball should include...
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Re: 18U SUMMER SCORES
There are two AABC World Series Qualifiers... 1. Phoenix 2. New York Both tournaments have been completed and the two teams mentioned have claimed their bid. The only other way into Farmington is through a regional tournament win. Few teams have received an automatic bid straight into a regional through a regional qualifier. I can't give the exact number of regional qualifiers across the country but there are few. Most teams must A. Qualify through league play to... B. Play in a state...
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Re: AMERICAN LEGION WORLD SERIES
Chesapeake cruises into World Series Reading Eagle Outside of a scare in the tournament opener against host West Lawn, Chesapeake cruised to the Mid-Atlantic Regional title. The Virginia state champs sealed their bid to the Legion World Series with a 6-2 win over Brooklawn in the championship game Monday at Owls Field. Jordan Adair pitched seven solid innings, allowing just two hits - both in Brooklawn's two-run first. After that, the Brookers were shut down. Adair followed with six hitless...
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Re: College: Fall "Season"
They do count, but with a name and RPI like Texas they can afford to play 3 less this spring. A smaller school/ conference (WCC for instance)on the other hand has to schedule as many tough opponents in the spring as possible to raise their RPI in case they don't win their conference. They need to take advantage of all 56 games to earn respect and hopefully an NCAA regional bid. Texas will get a bid almost automatically regardless of 53 or 56 games.
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Re: Boyd's Up for 2010
Ahh, the argument is not as clear as you make it out though. Duke went 1-2 in the conf tournament, while BC went 2-1, plus Duke had a 4 game losing streak coming down the stretch of the season. Add all that together with a 42 point advantage in the dreaded RPI for BC (29 to 71)...and BC gets the bid. I see what you mean about head to head, but the one game difference in the total W-L is really wiped out hard by the RPI difference.
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Re: School Uses Webcams for Spying
Interesting vid. FWIW- In most governmental systems a technical group must write an RFP (Request For Purchase) which identifies the hardware and software requirements a bidder must meet in order to win the contract. This request is about as public as it comes, and is open for bid to all. IMHO, from dealing with similar bidding processes, a Red Flag would be raised by many if there was any indication that the intent of the school district was to spy on the students. My guess is "somebody"...
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Re: Northern Iowa
Here are a couple of comments on this thread- First, as far as the expansion on the NCAA BB tourney, it's not a question of if but when and how. Too much money to be made for the NCAA and CBS. A thought that I had was expanding it to 96 (yes- 96 teams). The top 32 seeded teams, by automatic bid, RPI, etc..) get 1st round byes. Then with the second round you have 64 like we do now...It's basically the same formula that the NCAA does with it's football playoffs in Division 2. Second, I'm very...
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Re: James River v Cosby
Cosby beat James River, 7-5, in 8 innings. A spectacular, nip-and-tuck game, but once again it was Cosby that was able to squeeze out the last two runs to win it. Cosby broke on top in the 1st. After Nate Kirby K'ed the first two batters, Luke Lowery lined a double down the RF line, then scored when Tim Perry drove a grounder up the middle for an RBI single. Cosby made it 2-0 in the 2nd when someone (Carpenter?) singled, moved to 2nd on a wild pitch, got to third somehow, then scored on a...
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Re: D3 Tourney Selection - SU, CNU RMC in
Division 2 & 3 Baseball Regionals are much different than D1. Division 3 Picks the regional sites months in advance of the regional tournament. Teams place bids and the best bid gets to Host. The South Regional is hosted by Rhodes College in Memphis, TN and they aren't even in the tournament. The South Regional last year was hosted by Methodist University and they weren't in the tournament either. The top teams facing off in D3 and D2 regionals is nothing new. In D2, the Sunshine State...
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Re: D3 Tourney Selection - SU, CNU RMC in
Falcon, Thanks for that clarification on the site selection. That is unfortunate for the Virginia teams. They are well represented but have no seeding benefit of playing at home. I'm not sure I fully understand why they do that, but I guess I shouldn't be too shocked when the NCAA is involved.
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Re: Southeastern District Tournament: May 23-29 (Final Week)
Rainoutsux, For either Grassfield or Hickory to advance to the Eastern Regional, they have to win 3 games. For either Indian River or Nansemond River to advance to the Eastern Regional, they have to win 2 games IF Great Bridge wins on Wednesday and 3 games IF Great Bridge loses on Wednesday. For Western Branch to advance to the Eastern Regional, they have to win 1 game IF Great Bridge wins on Wednesday and 2 games IF Great Bridge loses on Wednesday. Really places importance on the seeding.
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Re: Southeastern District Tournament: May 23-29 (Final Week)
Yeah no kidding. Having to win 3 in just 4 days is tough.
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Re: Atlee wins Capital District
In an upset Prince George knocks of dinwiddie 2-1 to hand them their first loss of 2011.....they will play either Matoaca or Thomas Dale to determine second Regional bid from Central District
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Re: Path to the 2011 Virginia AAA State Baseball Tournament
NW Cardinal 1osbourn park-automatic bid championship 2 woodbridge vs. 4 forest park Cedar Run 1 battlefield vs 2 osbourn western valley 1 halifax county-automatic bid championship 4franklin county vs. 2george washington-3patrick henry winner! commonwealth 5-25 1colonial forge vs. 4 albemarle 2 mountain view vs. 3north stafford
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Re: Path to the 2011 Virginia AAA State Baseball Tournament
FenwayFan12, Thanks. Corrected. OFS10, Are you saying that in the Cedar Run District, Battlefield, seeded 1, has the automatic bid and that Osbourn will get the second one? Also, does Colonial Forge have the automatic bid for the Commonwealth?
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Re: Dominion District Tournament
Cosby opponent will be Lee Davis which beat Hanonver and advanced to play Atlee which already has the no. 1 bid
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Re: The road to Omaha
The SEC only got 7 same as ACC. No way did LSU deserve to get a bid, I know nothing about Hawaii. 8 schools from FL made the field, Texas 7, CA 7 a combined 22 from the field of 64.
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Re: The road to Omaha
Hawaii shared the regular season WAC conference title with Fresno State but came in second in the conference tournament. I guess I am more surprised that they did not win their tournament and gain an automatic bid than I am that they did not make the field of 64. TPM - I think the 9th best in the SEC is still better than some of the conference champs. Tough conference. From the post selection show it sounds like they were definitely a bubble team that was considered.
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Re: The road to Omaha
Most would agree but the conference champs deserve automatic bids. People want to know how tough it is, these top conference teams beat up on each other, have winning records and still get no bid. Although a decent RPI, I don't think LSU deserved a bid. JMO. Congratulations to the Clemson Tigers for a regional bid and to the Florida Gators, SEC champs!
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Re: The road to Omaha
Out of the 64 teams selected I am sure the best team in the nation is somewhere in there. There will always be teams left out that deserve to be in. There will always be teams selected that probably shouldnt be in. I did not think LSU deserved a bid. Very few road games. A very weak non conf schedule played at home. And a poor showing in their conference even though its the SEC. There are several teams good enough to win this tourney that are not national seeds. UCLA is at the top of that...
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Re: The road to Omaha
I was rooting for Bakersfield to get a bid. With New Mexico winning the conference tournament and giving the at large birth to TCU took any chance of Bakersfield or Hawaii of getting in.
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Re: The road to Omaha
Agreed. The SEC gets its share of bids, deservedly. A few factors played into LSU being left out. I've learned a lot of useless information in my years following college baseball. LSU probably beats conference tourney winners Belmont, U. Arkansas Little Rock and U. New Mexico more often than not, if they would just play them on the road. A few bids are stolen each year, automatic entries won in conference tournaments. This year there were four "stolen bids", one or two more than normal. LSU...
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Re: The road to Omaha
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dad04: LSU had a pathetic non-conference road record, in addition to their non-confernece home record full of cupcakes. LSU went on the road playing 4-50 U. New Orleans (transitioning to D3), Nichols State and Tulane (shadow of its former self). The Committee had to look at LSU with an overblown SEC RPI, a (3-0) nonexistant non-conference road record, a crummy conference record and a home non-conference record of wins against many early season northern cupcakes.
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Re: Where is the Northeast???.. Not on the Road to Omaha
Has nothing to do with the weather. It's about attendance, a region that draws more at the gate will get the bid every time.
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Re: Southern Arkansas
BK is correct, Magnolia, Arkansas is a rather out of the way place but the current and previous staffs at SAU have been able to produce great baseball teams. In 2010 they were in the DII regional final and after that season the coach left for a DI head coaching job. One of his assistants took over this past year and they won their conference tournament and secured another NCAA bid. They are known as a power in the Gulf South Conference though SAU and the other Arkansas DII institutions will...
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Re: TPM
I have come to the conclusion that I may live in a different "world" than some of you---that is fine--we have all all experienced different things, some more than others and some many times more because of age and situation---we all have to be somewhere--the difference is I am able to understand where you come from and accept your views even if I debate you continually--I don't call you an idiot--I don't call you dumb--and perhaps, just perhaps, I have more experience in this baseball thing...
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Re: Jeff Taylor
In the opening game of the ODAC tournament, Jeff was 2-5 with 2 RBI's in leading his Lynchburg team, the #5 seed, to a first round upset of the tournament #2 seed. Big, big win. They play the winner of the #3/#4 game today. A win today puts them in the driver's seat. Tournament winner receives the conference automatic bid for the NCAA Regional.
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Re: Jeff Taylor
Well, Jeff and his Lynchburg teammates are on the verge of ending this season with magic. Entering the ODAC tournament as the #5 seed, Lynchburg now is in the driver's seat with their win last night. Jeff was 2-3, with 3 runs scored, 2 RBI's, 2 walks and 1 stolen base in the victory. Lynchburg must be beaten twice today. They are one victory away from the ODAC automatic NCAA Regional bid and the only team without a loss.